Why Donald Trump Looms Over Australia’s Election
This election has the most fraught geopolitical backdrop in recent memory for Australia. Last week, some voters cast early ballots at a polling station in Sydney.
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on May 2025
Life in Ukraine Has Become More Dangerous Since Cease-Fire Talks Began
Sumy, Ukraine, a day after Russian ballistic missiles struck the city on Palm Sunday, killing at least 35.
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on May 2025
Pakistan’s Leaders May Talk Tough, but War With India Is the Last Thing Pakistanis Want
Zakir Khan reading a newspaper on Thursday at a stand in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, owned by Nazaman Abbasi, left. The headline reads: “America comes in full force to reduce tensions between India and Pakistan.”
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Thomas
on May 2025
How Rubio Proved Himself as Trump’s Loyal Foreign Policy Foot Soldier
Marco Rubio will help run Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda from inside both the White House and the State Department headquarters.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Far-Right AfD Is Labeled Extremist by Germany’s Intelligence Agency
Alice Weidel, a leader of the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, speaking at a party conference in Riesa, Germany, in January.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Trump Labels Haiti’s Powerful Gangs as Terrorists
Armed gang members in the capital, Port-au-Prince, last year.
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on May 2025
Paramilitary Fighters Massacre More Than 100 Civilians, Doctors’ Group Says
A photograph made from video released by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces showing its fighters in the capital, Khartoum, in 2023.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Canada’s Mark Carney to Visit Trump and Begin Tariff Negotiations
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking during a news conference in Ottawa on Friday where he also announced a visit by King Charles.
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Thomas
on May 2025
There’s Never Been a Pope From the U.S. Could Cardinal Prevost Change That?
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has said that a church leader is “called authentically to be humble, to be close to the people he serves, to walk with them, to suffer with them.”
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Thomas
on May 2025
Explosions Cripple Ship Carrying Aid to Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea
A tug vessel putting out a fire on a ship bound for Gaza off the coast of Malta on Friday, in a handout picture provided by the Maltese government.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Israel Launches Airstrikes Near Syrian Presidential Palace
Pro-government protesters gathered in Sahnaya, Syria, on Friday after Israel carried out airstrikes.
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on May 2025
Reform U.K. Wins Special Election in Runcorn by Just 6 Votes
Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform U.K. party, center, celebrating in the early hours of Friday.
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on May 2025
Prince Harry Says He Would ‘Love Reconciliation’ With Royal Family
Prince Harry in London in April. On Friday, he said he wants to reconcile with the royal family. “There’s no point continuing to fight anymore,” he said.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Voting in a Fraught World, Australians Focus on Cost-of-Living Concerns
Electoral placards outside a polling place in the seat of Bennelong, an electoral division of Sydney, Australia, on Friday.
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Thomas
on May 2025
New ‘Climate Superfund’ Laws Face Widening Legal Challenges
Flood damage in Barre, Vt., in 2023. Vermont and New York have passed new climate superfund laws.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Two Scientific Groups Say They’ll Keep Working on U.S. Climate Assessment
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration technician collecting air samples on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, in 2023.
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Thomas
on May 2025
U.S. and China Dig In on Trade War, With No Plans for Formal Talks
The apparent silence between the United States and China is a serious matter for the global economy.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Reform UK Surges as Conservatives Lose Seats: 4 Local Elections Takeaways
The Reform U.K. leader, Nigel Farage, center, in Widnes, northwestern England, on Friday.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Exxon and Chevron Report Lower Profits While Girding for Tariffs
Many larger oil and gas companies have said they would stick to their production plans for the year.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Who Is Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, a Possible Contender for the Next Pope?
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi leading a prayer for Pope Francis’ health at the Church of San Domenico in Bologna, Italy, in February.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Brazilian Nun Who Was World’s Oldest Person Dies at 116
A handout photo showing Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, at age 116, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Guinness World Records declared her the world’s oldest person in January.
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Thomas
on May 2025
U.S. Moves to Blacklist Huione Group Over Money Laundering Ties
Huione Pay headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in March.
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Thomas
on May 2025
South Korea Lurches From One Political Crisis to Another
Lee Ju-Ho, South Korea’s education minister and acting president, presiding over the national security council at the government complex in Seoul on Friday.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Friday Briefing
Michael Waltz boarding Air Force One on Tuesday.
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on May 2025
China Is Considering Trade Talks With U.S., but It Has Conditions
A worker at a garment factory last month in Guangzhou, the export hub in southern China.
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Thomas
on May 2025
What Australia’s Vote Means for Climate in a Major Coal Economy
The Mount Owen coal mine in Ravensworth, Australia, in 2022.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Marco Rubio Adds a New Title Under Trump: Interim National Security Adviser
Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a cabinet meeting at the White House last month. Mr. Rubio is now the head of four government agencies.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Friday Briefing: A White House Shake-Up
Michael Waltz boarding Air Force One on Tuesday.
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on May 2025
Death Toll Rises Sharply in a Wave of Sectarian Violence in Syria
A funeral procession for Druse fighters killed in attacks by extremists on the Druse city of Jaramana, Syria, on Wednesday.
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on May 2025
Kenyan Lawmaker Is Shot Dead by Motorcycle-Riding Assailant
Police officers and hospital staff carrying a coffin with the body of the lawmaker Charles Were at Nairobi Hospital on Wednesday.
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Thomas
on May 2025
What to Know About Syria’s Druse, Alawites and Kurds as Sectarian Violence Rises
A funeral procession of killed Druse fighters after attacks by extremists on neighborhoods around the capital, Damascus, that are home to many Druse.
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Thomas
on May 2025
U.S. and U.N. Urge De-escalation Between India and Pakistan
Indian security forces on Wednesday guard the way to Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam, Kashmir, the site of a recent terror attack.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Odile de Vasselot, Teenage Aristocrat in the French Resistance, Dies at 103
Odile de Vasselot in 2021. Her Resistance career resembled that of many others, with one key difference: In a largely working-class movement, she was an aristocrat.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Trans Women Banned From Competing in Women’s Soccer in England
A Women’s Super League match between Arsenal and Leicester City in London last month.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Fatal Storm Rips Through Oklahoma and Texas, Flooding Roads
Heavy rain fell on Dallas on Wednesday, and there were more storms in the forecast.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Israeli Firefighters Gain Control Over Blaze Near Jerusalem
Dropping water to extinguish a wildfire in Latrun, central Israel, on Thursday.
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Thomas
on May 2025
North Korea and Russia Build First Cross-Border Road Bridge
A photo released by North Korean state media on Wednesday showed officials at a groundbreaking ceremony for a bridge spanning the Tumen River and linking North Korea to Russia.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Trump Ties Himself to Future of Ukraine With Minerals Deal
An open-pit titanium mine in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine in February.
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on May 2025
A Contender for the Papacy Known for Promoting Dialogue With Other Faiths
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline attending a Mass at St Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday.
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Thomas
on May 2025
South Korea’s Acting President Han Duck-Soo Resigns
South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo announced his resignation on Thursday.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Lost in the ‘Death Realm’ of El Salvador’s Prisons
Mr. Vega and his wife, Marta González, with photographs of their sons.
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on May 2025
Kashmir Is a Wonderland. An Attack Shows It Is Also a Cradle of Despair.
Locals walking through the debris of a demolished house in Kashmir, on Tuesday. Indian authorities destroyed the building after suspecting that its owners were connected to last week’s terrorist attack in the territory.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Thursday Briefing
A uranium mine in Neopalymivka, Ukraine.
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on May 2025
50 Years After the U.S. Left Vietnam, Another Retreat Is Shaking Asia
Chinese soldiers taking part in a parade in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War.
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Thomas
on May 2025
What to Know About the First U.K. Local Elections Under Keir Starmer
A polling site for local election in Rickmansworth, England, on Thursday. Fewer areas are voting this year, because of a planned reorganization.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Man Accused of Hacking Climate Groups Can Be Sent to U.S., Judge Says
An ExxonMobil facility in Louisiana. A lobbying firm that worked for the oil company is accused of hiring hackers to target environmentalists.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Thursday Briefing: Anger Is Building in India
The government in Gujarat razed about 2,000 huts in a settlement that it said was occupied illegally by Bangladeshis.
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Thomas
on May 2025
Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza
Amid Sectarian Violence in a Syrian City, Even the Funerals Are Armed
100 Days of Solitude: Trump and the Retreat of America
Christina Leitzel’s ‘Fun’ Prosthetic Eyes are Designed to Stand Out